Bambino's

This is the part of my blog that is the Ravings. I am going to be that mother that we all want to be but are afraid we will look like we are bragging, conceited or just plain proud.

I have 2 wonderful adult "bambino's". God blessed me with a boy and a girl. My husband was totally relieved when we had a girl first since i told him that we would keep having kids until I had a girl. Don't get me wrong I love baby boys especially MY baby boy. It is just that in both our families there are predominately boy babies and I didn't think my husband would be to pleased when I started dressing his "macho" son in frilly pink dresses. But hey you do what you gotta do right? Well like I said he was never so relieved as when that doctor in the delivery room said, "It's a Girl!!!"

Now I had the best job one could ever ask for, I was a mom of 2 really great kids. I have to say they honestly never gave me a lick of trouble. They had their typical sibling spats, frequently, but mainly because they are so close in age (21 months) and were highly competitive, especially when they ended up being only a year apart in school. Trust me I did not plan to have to kids graduate from high school and then college within a year of each other.

Back to my Ravings...well now rants.... you see my kids both graduated from high school 4.00 GPA students with International Baccalaureate Diploma's. But you see when they graduated the public school they attended didn't believe in having a valedictorian or special recognitions for students that graduated with a full IB diploma, you see the powers at be didn't want the other students that didn't perform as well to feel bad, they were afraid it would hurt their self esteem. Of course my kids worked their little behinds off all the way through school often forgoing that weekend party in order to study, they went the extra mile, but they were not given any extra attention because of those that didn't achieve as much might feel bad. Hog Wash!!!!

Why do we lower the standards of expectations for our youth rather than requiring that they work to achieve the higher standards. So consequently our youth are not as successful and do not achieve as much as they truly are capable, and we wonder why they have not been able to move ahead or get out of the slums. It is always everyone else's fault. We didn't give them the same opportunities, we made it too hard for them, we don't understand all the other outside influences they face. Boo Woo.

My kids did without a lot while growing up. I was sick from the time my daughter was in the 1st grade so I didn't work outside the home. My husband stayed in a dead end job because it was at least an income. But somehow my kids managed to get 4.00 GPA, go to college and graduate Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude.

I am so tired of people still blaming society for everything that happened over a hundred years ago (how many of us were even around a hundred years ago) and for it being everyone else's fault that students are not successful in school. Give me a break. Granted not every student will achieve a 4.00, but everyone can learn.

I appreciate that some student's do have some true learning disabilities but most of the students are just plain lazy. Parent's need to insist their children attend class and they need consequences when they don't achieve or don't attend class. School is a child's job and this is when they learn responsibility necessary to succeed in society.

So please, let's stop make excuses and let's start insisting that our children do their "jobs" of learning.

But you know I really do have the best and most terrific 2 adult children.

My raving and ranting for today... oh bother......